This is the 7th Tayside Biennial Diabetes Clinical Network Conference. The increasing burden of the diabetes epidemic, new advances in treatment, the new Diabetes SIGN Guideline and NHS Scotland Diabetes Action Plan, the NHS Quality agenda and numerous local initiatives mean that much is happening, and changing, in the diabetes world. The Conference spans all aspects of modern diabetes care and the programme will comprise a wide mix of top quality speakers and interactive workshops.

“Diabetes: The Challenge of Change” There are few topics in primary care that present as many difficult and numerous challenges as the management of diabetes. New guidelines, new drugs, and new diagnostic and monitoring parameters are the inevitable consequences of the pandemic that we now find ourselves in.

This two day UK Consensus Conference has been convened by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in association with the Royal College of General Practitioners (Scotland), Diabetes UK, Association of British Clinical Diabetologists and Primary Care Diabetes Society.

The NIHR Clinical Research Network is making significant progress towards changing the way that clinical research is delivered in the NHS. Our aim is to ensure that patients and healthcare professionals from across the country have access to and can take part in high quality clinical trials.

This year’s conference will showcase some of the work being delivered nationally by the NIHR Clinical Research Network to support researchers, NHS Trusts and companies undertaking clinical research in the NHS.